On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:03:24 +0000, Larry wrote:



I have a picture of Mark Twain, one of Nikola Tesla's favorite friends,
holding a lit flourescent tube in his hand in Tesla's workshop with no
wires....(c; The picture is on the net.

Larry

Would you be so kind as to post or send the URL to my email address?
He is one person who I would really like to have met. When he was
broke, he undertook a speaking tour of the world in order to improve
his finances and pay off his debts. He came down this way (actually
'down there' as I'm about to leave Trinidad) and talked to packed
houses. I'm only 59 and missed him by a few years.

What I admire is his cynicism - not the current negative view of the
term as a sneering deprication but the original - one who sees what
is, not what should be. Hemingway wrote that all American literature
starts with Mark Twain. I can see why someone like Tesler would enjoy
his friendship.

Peter

On Apr 29, 9:54 pm, Peter Hendra wrote:
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:03:24 +0000, Larry wrote:

I have a picture of Mark Twain, one of Nikola Tesla's favorite friends,
holding a lit flourescent tube in his hand in Tesla's workshop with no
wires....(c; The picture is on the net.

Larry

Would you be so kind as to post or send the URL to my email address?
He is one person who I would really like to have met. When he was
broke, he undertook a speaking tour of the world in order to improve
his finances and pay off his debts. He came down this way (actually
'down there' as I'm about to leave Trinidad) and talked to packed
houses. I'm only 59 and missed him by a few years.

What I admire is his cynicism - not the current negative view of the
term as a sneering deprication but the original - one who sees what
is, not what should be. Hemingway wrote that all American literature
starts with Mark Twain. I can see why someone like Tesler would enjoy
his friendship.

Peter

It is not a flourescent tube, Twain is arching a gap.
Here is the close-up: http://www.twainquotes.com/teslalab.jpg

Larry has the long shot with Telsa in the bkgd, it's hard to tell in
the picture.

Ever read Telsa Queen Bee rants?

Joe

Ever read Telsa Queen Bee rants?

Joe

Hi Joe,

No. Educate me.

Peter

On Apr 30, 3:29 am, Peter Hendra wrote:
Ever read Telsa Queen Bee rants?

Joe

Hi Joe,

No. Educate me.

Peter

Colliers, January 30, 1926

The life of the bee will be the life of our race, says Nikola Tesla,
world-famed scientist.

A NEW sex order is coming--with the female as superior. You will
communicate instantly by simple vest-pocket equipment. Aircraft will
travel the skies, unmanned, driven and guided by radio. Enormous
power will be transmitted great distances without wires. Earthquakes
will become more and more frequent. Temperate zones will turn frigid
or torrid. And some of these awe-inspiring developments, says Tesla,
are not so very far off.


Mr. Tesla regards the emergence of woman as one of the most profound
portents for the future.

"It is clear to any trained observer," he says, "and even to the
sociologically untrained, that a new attitude toward sex
discrimination has come over the world through the centuries,
receiving an abrupt stimulus just before and after the World War.

"This struggle of the human female toward sex equality will end in a
new sex order, with the female as superior. The modern woman, who
anticipates in merely superficial phenomena the advancement of her
sex, is but a surface symptom of something deeper and more potent
fermenting in the bosom of the race.

"It is not in the shallow physical imitation of men that women will
assert first their equality and later their superiority, but in the
awakening of the intellect of women.

"Through countless generations, from the very beginning, the social
subservience of women resulted naturally in the partial atrophy or at
least the hereditary suspension of mental qualities which we now know
the female sex to be endowed with no less than men.

The Queen is the Center of Life

"BUT the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental
acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that
capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated
as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant
faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be
all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose.
Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their
progress.

"The acquisition of new fields of endeavor by women, their gradual
usurpation of leadership, will dull and finally dissipate feminine
sensibilities, will choke the maternal instinct, so that marriage and
motherhood may become abhorrent and human civilization draw closer and
closer to the perfect civilization of the bee."

The significance of this lies in the principle dominating the economy
of the bee--the most highly organized and intelligently coordinated
system of any form of nonrational animal life--the all-governing
supremacy of the instinct for immortality which makes divinity out of
motherhood.

The center of all bee life is the queen. She dominates the hive, not
through hereditary right, for any egg may be hatched into a reigning
queen, but because she is the womb of this insect race.

We Can Only Sit and Wonder

THERE are the vast, desexualized armies of workers whose sole aim and
happiness in life is hard work. It is the perfection of communism, of
socialized, cooperative life wherein all things, including the young,
are the property and concern of all.

Then there are the virgin bees, the princess bees, the females which
are selected from the eggs of the queen when they are hatched and
preserved in case an unfruitful queen should bring disappointment to
the hive. And there are the male bees, few in number, unclean of
habit, tolerated only because they are necessary to mate with the
queen.

When the time is ripe for the queen to take her nuptial flight the
male bees are drilled and regimented. The queen passes the drones
which guard the gate of the hive, and the male bees follow her in
rustling array. Strongest of all the inhabitants of the hive, more
powerful than any of her subjects, the queen launches into the air,
spiraling upward and upward, the male bees following. Some of the
pursuers weaken and fail, drop out of the nuptial chase, but the queen
wings higher and higher until a point is reached in the far ether
where but one of the male bees remains. By the inflexible law of
natural selection he is the strongest, and he mates with the queen.
At the moment of marriage his body splits asunder and he perishes.

The queen returns to the hive, impregnated, carrying with her tens of
thousands of eggs--a future city of bees, and then begins the cycle of
reproduction, the concentration of the teeming life of the hive in
unceasing work for the birth of a new generation.

Imagination falters at the prospect of human analogy to this
mysterious and superbly dedicated civilization of the bee; but when we
consider how the human instinct for race perpetuation dominates life
in its normal and exaggerated and perverse manifestations, there is
ironic justice in the possibility that this instinct, with the
continuing intellectual advance of women, may be finally expressed
after the manner of the bee, though it will take centuries to break
down the habits and customs of peoples that bar the way to such a
simiply and scientifically ordered civilization.

We have seen a beginning of this in the United States. In Wisconsin
the sterilization of confirmed criminals and pre-marriage examination
of males is required by law, while the doctrine of eugenics is now
boldly preached where a few decades ago its advocacy was a statutory
offense.

On Apr 29, 9:54 pm, Peter Hendra wrote:
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:03:24 +0000, Larry wrote:

I have a picture of Mark Twain, one of Nikola Tesla's favorite friends,
holding a lit flourescent tube in his hand in Tesla's workshop with no
wires....(c; The picture is on the net.

Larry

Would you be so kind as to post or send the URL to my email address?
He is one person who I would really like to have met. When he was
broke, he undertook a speaking tour of the world in order to improve
his finances and pay off his debts. He came down this way (actually
'down there' as I'm about to leave Trinidad) and talked to packed
houses. I'm only 59 and missed him by a few years.

What I admire is his cynicism - not the current negative view of the
term as a sneering deprication but the original - one who sees what
is, not what should be. Hemingway wrote that all American literature
starts with Mark Twain. I can see why someone like Tesler would enjoy
his friendship.

Peter

PS: Telsa was a fool. Brilliant, but lacking in seeing what is, and
fighting for what will never be. It cost him billions.

Joe

Peter Hendra wrote in
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On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:03:24 +0000, Larry wrote:



I have a picture of Mark Twain, one of Nikola Tesla's favorite friends,
holding a lit flourescent tube in his hand in Tesla's workshop with no
wires....(c; The picture is on the net.

Larry

Would you be so kind as to post or send the URL to my email address?
He is one person who I would really like to have met. When he was
broke, he undertook a speaking tour of the world in order to improve
his finances and pay off his debts. He came down this way (actually
'down there' as I'm about to leave Trinidad) and talked to packed
houses. I'm only 59 and missed him by a few years.

What I admire is his cynicism - not the current negative view of the
term as a sneering deprication but the original - one who sees what
is, not what should be. Hemingway wrote that all American literature
starts with Mark Twain. I can see why someone like Tesler would enjoy
his friendship.

Peter


Just put:

Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla

into the Google search engine. It will find all the stories, over
186,000 of them, you can read. Click on "IMages" for hundreds of
pictures of the two together. It's a huge collection.



Larry
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